Friday, August 28, 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Leaving in the morning for a week-long retreat at a monastery in Idaho. Thoughts of what to take....AS IF it were a trip to Europe. What I think I will do is no make-up, no jewelry, painting supplies (small travel size), spiritual reading and myself.....

Monday, August 17, 2009

Faith lives in the same building as doubt.Faith is comfortable with Doubt because she grew up with Him.Their mothers are cousins.Her friends fear that Faith is a bit stupid.They whisper she is naive and she depends on Doubt to protect her from the meanness of life. In fact, it is the other way around.It is Faith who protects Doubt from cynicism.

Dreary and cold here again. The hummingbirds seem to be leaving already!!

Gay men across Iraq are being rounded up, tortured, and killed by the country’s militias, including the feared Mahdi Army—while the government stands by. The Daily Beast’s Parvez Sharma gets an early look at a report documenting the brutality.